The key challenges for those in the health innovation space, Murthy said, are: Making healthy choices more compelling and accessible; Developing ways to reduce health disparities; and ; Designing ...

For a primer, single-payer, universal healthcare proposals failed on the California ballot in 1994 and in the Legislature in 2012. Plans passed by the Legislature were vetoed by Gov. Arnold ...

A new study released in JAMA finds life expectancy has still not bounced back from pre-pandemic 2019 levels, attributing the ...

Two proposals meant to ease burdens faced by California’s rural patients and their health care providers are breezing through the state legislature as lawmakers finish up for the year. One measure ...

Joined by other states, Iowa in 2014 sued unsuccessfully over California egg law. Now the Trump administration is taking a ...

While there are nearly 13,000 community health center clinics in the United States, they play an especially important role in California, providing routine medical services for one in six ...

OAKLAND, Calif. - California farmworkers face harsh working conditions, limited healthcare access, and widespread chronic health issues, according to a new community-based study. Researchers from ...

On December 11, 2002, the University of California, San Francisco, Fresno (UCSF Fresno) Latino Center for Medical Education and Research will host a lecture titled Latino Health in ...

California has a new top doctor. On Gov. Gavin Newsom’s first day in office in January 2019, he announced that he was creating the position of state surgeon general, which exists in only a few ...

Instead, the 72-year-old UC San Francisco neurologist has set his sights on solving one of the biggest challenges facing health care today: Alzheimer’s disease. Prusiner made a passionate plea for ...

UnitedHealth Group is facing a host of legal troubles in California, where both regulators and a large group of independent physicians are accusing the plan of financial and operational misconduct.

Medicaid expansion in California, by many accounts, has been a success. The number of uninsured fell to just 11% of the population as of 2014, down from 16% the year before, one of the biggest ...